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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Anne go when Rick takes Sam to school?
(a) To church
(b) Golden Gate Park
(c) San Quentin Beach
(d) Shopping

2. What does Anne do when she has to make an important decision?
(a) She calls her girlfriends for advice.
(b) She goes to a psychic.
(c) She gets very quiet to see what decision brings her peace.
(d) She calls her mother.

3. What does Anne recall that Pammy had wanted desperately?
(a) To be a mother
(b) To be well
(c) To avoid chemotherapy
(d) To teach again

4. What sight irritates Anne so that she has to focus on something else?
(a) Hippies with long hair hanging down their backs
(b) A large man with a hairy chest takes off his shirt
(c) A driver who cuts her off on the freeway
(d) A mother slapping her child

5. Why does Anne think that bad things happen?
(a) Because people are essentially bad and they deserve bad things.
(b) God wants to see what is in your heart.
(c) Because God tests everyone at some point.
(d) They distract you from something wonderful waiting to be born.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anne interpret the well-meaning acts of a woman at Sam's school?

2. Who is the gay man in her church who is dying from AIDS?

3. How does Anne envision her time on stage with Paley?

4. Paley believes that women can be part of the equal rights movement without giving up _____________________.

5. What does Anne think when her plane finally levels out after hours of delay, bomb inspections, and turbulence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anne mean by "Traveling Mercies"?

2. How is Anne like her activist father?

3. Describe Anne's trip to the beach when she tries to get rid of a headache.

4. What decision-making process does Anne use when determining whether or not she should let Sam go paragliding?

5. What does Anne consider to be the first miracle she witnesses?

6. Why does Anne go to the home of her friend, Shelly?

7. What role does alcohol play in Anne's home life?

8. How does Anne change her perspective about Sam's classmate's mother?

9. Why is the arrival of Pammy's daughter such a bittersweet occasion?

10. How is Anne part of another little miracle?

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